1758 in music

Events

 * Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.
 * William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
 * Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.

Popular music

 * None listed

Opera

 * Baldassare Galuppi – Il Mondo alla Roversa
 * Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck – 'L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé
 * Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Les fêtes de Paphos, Op.10
 * Davide Perez – Solimano
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Lyre enchantée
 * Tommaso Traetta – Buovo d'Antona
 * Johann Adolph Hasse
 * Il Sogno di Scipione
 * Demofoonte

Classical music

 * Charles Avison – Twelve Concertos, Op. 6 (London and Newcastle)
 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * Fugue in D minor, H.99
 * Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50 (H. 126, 136–140) (begun, completed 1759, published 1760)
 * Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.133
 * 12 Kleine Stücke, H. 600, Wq. 81
 * Geistliche Oden und Lieder I (Leipzig), H.686 (composed 1757)
 * Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 1
 * William Boyce – Overture No.7
 * Giacomo Cervetto – 6 Trio Sonatas
 * Baldassare Galuppi – L'oracolo del Vaticano
 * Francesco Geminiani – The Harmonical Miscellany (periodical, in two volumes, London)
 * Michael Haydn
 * Symphony No. 1 in C major
 * Divertimento in C major, MH 27
 * Pieter Hellendaal – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
 * Johann Philipp Kirnberger – 8 Fugues (written for Prussian Princess Anna Amalia)
 * Johann Adolph Scheibe – 3 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Georg Philipp Telemann – Laudate Jehovam, TWV 7:25

Methods and theory writings

 * Jakob Adlung – Anleitung zu der musikalischen Gelahrtheit
 * François Clément – Essai sur l'accompagnement du clavecin
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Singcomposition

Births

 * February 1 – Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, librettist and poet (died 1818)
 * February 4 – Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, choreographer and ballet dancer (died 1840)
 * February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
 * February 12 – Christian Ignatius Latrobe, music collector and composer (died 1836)
 * April 23 – Matthieu Frédéric Blasius, composer and violinist (died 1829)
 * May 25 – Matthew Camidge, composer and organist (died 1844)
 * June 4 – Joseph Dacre Carlyle, librettist and orientalist (died 1804)
 * June 30 – António Leal Moreira, composer (died 1819)
 * July – Nicolas-Julien Forgeot, French librettist (died 1798)
 * August 25 – Franz Teyber, composer
 * September 25
 * Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
 * Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, pianist and composer
 * October 5
 * Thomas Greatorex, music collector and organist (died 1831)
 * August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine, librettist and novelist (died 1831)
 * October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
 * November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, librettist and author (died 1841)
 * December 3
 * Louis Adam, French composer (died 1848)
 * Joseph Gelinek, composer and pianist (died 1825)
 * December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer and editor (died 1832)
 * December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
 * Date unknown
 * Harriett Abrams, composer and musician (died 1821)
 * Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
 * Josep Gallés, composer and organist (died 1836)
 * Bernardo Porta, Italian composer (died 1829)
 * John Sale, composer and bass singer (died 1827)

Deaths

 * January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
 * March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
 * April 2 – Johann Balthasar König, German composer (born 1691)
 * April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
 * April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
 * June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
 * July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, librettist and poet (born 1705)
 * October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
 * October 14 – Wilhelmine Von Bayreuth, composer and princess (born 1709)
 * November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
 * November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
 * December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
 * December 26 – François-Joseph de La Grange-Chancel, librettist and dramatist (born 1677)
 * probable
 * Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
 * Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Italian composer (born 1699)
 * Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio, Italian composer (born 1699)